The word “genius” in German has a special overtone, even a tinge of the demonic, a mysterious power and energy; a genius—whether artist or scientist—is considered to have a special vulnerability, a precariousness, a life of constant risk and often close to troubled turmoil. – Fritz Stern
Sonderweg: “special path,” a German equivalent of “American Exceptionalism.”
Innerlichkeit: inwardness, it manifests the inwardly-looking structures of the mind; consider also the symphony, which is (usually) wordless and beyond words.
Bildung: self-cultivation and the desire to “enlarge” ourselves and those around us.
Innerlichkeit and Bildung both are German tendencies which have been explicitly named and praised as virtues over many centuries.